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BRITISH CENSORSHIP OF CIVIL MAILS DURING WORLD WAR 1 (1914-1919)
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The Author has tackled a subject that has never been covered in this detail before; the references and bibliography in annexe show the depth of his research. Starting with an introduction to censorship he goes on to describe the objectives and legal aspects and how the mails are censored. Successive chapters deal with the treatment of mail to and from the enemy, neutral and allied countries in different spheres of the world, country by country. Inland mail is also covered as is prisoner of war and internees mail. Each special category of mail is described. All of the censor’s slips, labels and handstamps are illustrated as are a large number of covers relevant to the text. Appendices give historical and political background and there is an abstract of Post Office circulars. This is an important and highly readable book for the postal and social historian dealing with the problems of communication during the difficult and dark time of war. |
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287 pages B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2000.
Price £25 + postage & packing.
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A POSTAL HISTORY OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES IN EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 1 Singapore and Malaya 1942 – 1945 The Changi Connection By DAVID TETT
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Volume 2 Dutch East Indies 1942-1946 Paradise Lost
published by the author in 2003 and
Volume 3 Burma, Thailand and Indochina. 1942-1946. The Railway, the River and the Bridge. Published by BFA Publishing, 2005
see www.fepowmail.com for price and how to purchase
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This is the first of three volumes to deal with the subject of the main title.
The author combines the general history of the period with personal references from individual correspondences to give detailed context to the postal arrangements for POWs and internees into and out of Singapore and Malaya.
The chapters in the book are: Prelude to the Captivity; The Prison Camps; The mails that were returned; At home; The Bureau of Record and Enquiry; Three personal postal histories; The cards from POWs in Singapore; The mail to Civilian Internees in Singapore; Mails to those who were not interned; Unauthorised mails; Japanese Postal Stationery; Some went home.
There are seven Appendices dealing with detailed aspects of the postal history such as cards and covers addressed to POWs in Malaya and Singapore and Australian Red Cross Society Directions for Mail.
There is a good index and bibliography.
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| “... this is a goldmine of a book....the stuff of history....a priceless and universal appendix to so many singular stories" Martin Bell |
| 387 pages. B/W illustrations. Hard bound with colour dustjacket. Printed 2002. Price £35 plus postage and packing. |
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THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By A.D. PRESGRAVE
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Starting with a section on the road mails of the State, the book goes on to describe the development of it’s railways and the operations and functions of the Travelling Post Offices. There is detailed information on the specification of the specially adapted rolling stock. Each stage of the development of the network is covered very thoroughly and is accompanied by the details of the timetables and schedules as well as examples of all the known handstamps. This work will be of interest not only to the postal historian studying the development of mail systems in South Australia but also those interested in the railway itself. There are 32 pages in annexe providing information on postal regulations as well as a useful index.
Awards include a Vermeil at Trains 1999 and a large silver at Philexfrance 1999. |
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“Will be a standard reference for many years to come” London Philatelist September 1998
“….Will appeal to a far greater audience than just those who collect mail carried on the particular TPOs. …..A fine selection of illustrations and maps which will certainly please those interested in railways” Stamp Magazine August 1998. |
132 pages B/W illustrations Card cover Published 1997
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ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL – VOLUME NO 2: 2001.
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The Goldfields of Victoria
by Rod Moreton
The story starts with the discovery of gold in New South Wales in 1851. Later that year the State of Victoria was created out of part of New South Wales and rewards offered for the discovery of gold. An development of the gold fields is described leading to the need for post offices some of which were short lived. This is illustrated with covers to and from the diggings as well as maps, engravings and extracts from papers of the period. The story includes murder and arson and gives a glimpse of life from the first fifty years of this Australian gold rush era.
Pre Soviet Russia Registered and associated Mail
by Ian Baillie
There was an insured mail system in Russia in 1691 which continued into the early 20th Century when it withered. The Russian registration system is generally accepted as starting in 1871 and the story of its development to about 1918 is told. This is a survey of the development of the registration systems and their postal rates profusely illustrated with the various types of registration labels including TPO labels, ship mail, Zemstvo, field post and ending with a small section on Finland, Poland and Russian POs abroad.
Early Mails between Constantinople and the West
by Hans Smith
The background leading to the founding of Constantinople by the Roman Emperor in AD 330 is described with a brief survey of its subsequent history with the Byzantine Empire giving way to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The postal history begins with an entire of 1453. The "capitulations" (minor treaties) granted to foreigners began in 1454 with Venice and in later centuries these
formed the basis of the mail services between foreign post offices in the City and the rest of the world. The history over the next 400 years is summarised and interspersed with entires. Some postal rates from 1742 and 1788 are recorded as are some postal markings from 1780. Finally the Napoleonic Posts ending in 1815 are described.
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B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2001.
Price £10 + postage & packing.
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ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 8: 2008
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The Post Office : the other side of the Counter or what the Customer does not see
by Robert Johnson
The article is based on the Stuart Rossiter Trust lecture of November 2006 and describes some of the work and official rules that a postal clerk might have to deal with in the course of a day including letters, parcels, postal and money orders, the savings bank, the telegraph and telephone, insurance, licences, airmails and savings banks. These are profusely illustrated with pictures of forms and of pages from books of postal regulations. The forms are from the Great Britain and many other countries around the world are represented for example a savings form from Southern Rhodesia, a French Service Suspended label concerning nuclear tests in the Pacific, Belgian and French social security forms, a Netherlands authority to collect mail card, an Indian radio licence some of which bear postage stamps
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Netherlands East Indies Postal History 1789 to 1877
by by Richard Wheatley
Postal markings were introduced by the old Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) in 1789and this forms an appropriate point to start to unravel the postal history of the area. This comprehensive article traces the routes and postal rates up to 1877 when the Colony joined the General Postal Union.
Both inland mail and mail to overseas destinations are dealt with. From the VOC Company period (1789 -1808), through the French (1808 - 1811) and British (1811 - 1816) Occupations and finally the Dutch Colonial time. Nearly all the pages bear a cover to illustrate a rate or route and there are many tables which provide this information.
There is an exhaustive section dealing with the Dutch East Indies Landmail Labels - the Worlds' first Postage Due Stamp!
The considerable bibliography gives testament to the scope of research and translation that has been needed to present this study in English.i
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110 pages B/W illustrations throughout, one colour plate. Card cover. Published 2005
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